Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,345 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Morris and Lister

From Graces Guide

of Carlton Works, Lockhurst Lane, Coventry

Electrical manufacturer

Formed by David King Morris and George Anslow Lister

1908 Eddy current testing brake.

1910 Exhibited a time circuit breaker for protection of motors at the Physical Society's Exhibition[1]

WWI Morris and Lister, eventually under Admiralty control, endeavoured to develop magnetos and to rationalize and expand production. The Admiralty was concerned for supplies of magnetos for aero-engines for the Royal Naval Air Service.

Became the M. L. Magneto Syndicate‎

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Dec 12, 1910
  • Biography of Peter Bennett, ODNB